Before joining the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, Chris Brodie spent the past five years as an associate editor of American Scientist magazine, an international bimonthly publication containing articles written by scientists and published by Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society. Brodie is also a member of Sigma Xi, which has its headquarters in Research Triangle Park.
Brodie is the co-founder of Science Communicators of North Carolina (SCONC), a professional organization of scientists, journalists, public information officers, teachers and museum curators. SCONC currently has more than 200 members.
Brodie was born in Michigan and grew up in Cobb County, Georgia. After earning undergraduate degrees in biology and English from the University of Georgia, he taught high school science for three years in rural south Georgia.
As a predoctoral fellow of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brodie earned a Ph.D. in molecular, cellular, developmental biology and genetics from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus. He then came to the Department of Neurobiology at Duke University as a postdoctoral research associate. At Duke, Brodie received a National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health.
Brodie is also a Fulbright Scholar for 2008-2009. During a four-month residence in Oslo, he will teach science communications at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. The Academy is notable as the administrator of the million-dollar Kavli Prizes in Nanoscience, Neuroscience and Astrophysics, and of the Abel Prize in Mathematics. Brodie's visit coincides with the award of the inaugural Kavli Prizes in Oslo in September.
Brodie and his wife Jennifer, a North Carolina native, live in Durham. They have three children.
